Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

1.10.2007

interesting people.... interesting lives.... interesting paths

that is a great photobet there is a great storybet it is a snap shot and not a photo shoot

ya, know.... I know nothing about the band H20not really familiar with their music or their position in the music scene

where ever it is and whatever they are saying... well, it is all certainly an interesting storyperhaps every band's story is an interesting oneit fascinates us from the outsidethem on the stageus in the crowdno matter where the band is performingno matter how they travel there is some attraction to the lifestyle

slumming in in a white van or traveling in a chartered jeteither story has its appeal to us on the outsidesomehow we crave either existenceas both ways are so different than our own

these guys have historythese guys have lots of years adding up into lots of historythey have been in bands togetherthey have been in bands apart

these guys have energy and passionor so they did when I used to know them nearly 20 years ago

we were all pretty much kidsadolescent kidsduring that time I was just starting college and some of these guys lived around the county where my college waswe all skated and listened to punkokay... they skatedI did not skate very wellwe would see each other at backyard skate ramps and punk showswe shared mutual friends

during that time todd was in a band called The Roadside Petzor was it The OutCrowd?either way... they had energy and they had a local followingthey sang about adolescent stuffit was pretty coolthey were tight and they did this double singer thingbut... it was a tough timethe scene was toughthey were kids singing about kids stuffwhile the vibrant scene in dc was going through an intellectual revolution

all the guys who in their early teens were recording on 8 tracks and cutting seven inches with nothing but three cords, fast drums, and shouts and screams had all learned to play their instrumentsthe exercise of writing music had developedan already advanced set of thinking took another great leap forward

it was tough for them to cross over into a moderately incestuous scenean incestuous scene with a little bit of an attitude

that was roughly twenty years agothose guys have been in many different bands since thentraveled the worldcalling ny their home

it is an amazing storyI can recall toby as a high energy teenthis kid was a rockethe could not slow for a secondit was intensehe would be bouncing off the walls doing these kick flip ollies on his skate boardall the while talkingtalking about thistalking about thathe had all sorts of ideasone of his big ideas was getting out of the county

he had another older brother, tracy that lived in ny citytoby was headed for new york citymust have been waiting to graduate and move to new york city

it is intense

rusty, toby, and toddman... I bet they have fought like cain and ablebet they all fought like brothers... well, of course todd and toby are brothersbut that whole band thing.... it is like boyfriend and well...and of course... sibling rivalry... f ck an a right!toby being the front manI can only imagineokay I can imagine... but I gave my brother alpha dog position years agoas he is older it is less of an issueyet, they are still together and it seems like they are producing and prosporingawesome...

check out toby's historyhis being a roadie for sick of it allwho grew to sing one songto be the front man in a band

that is awesome to live your dreamsas someone fascinated with lifeI see that this path and its course would make a great story to be toldin story book or documentary form

these are some charasmatic individualsthey are traveling the world and rocking the stage

Rites of Spring had an energy and emotion that I really enjoyedalthough it was tough to swallow some of the effect they had on people

we used to joke and skate the ditch at White Flint singing their songsat times torn between enjoying them and mocking themthe crying may have been too much for medon't get me wrong get me talking about my dead dog and I will crybut not when someone starts playing guitar

Todd Toby Rusty and the guys are the same as they used to be. A few years ago, while working at the troc, I saw Rusty in a Santa suit call a guy out from on stage and almost go into the crowd after him. That is true passion.

funnygot an email from a friend in AZhe clicked on some of those links not sure if it was the myspace Rites of Spring or the YOUTUBE Rites of Springeither wayapparently a guy with bothy know named Haig filled those showswonder if he hosted those or how the videos changed hands

durning that same era I filmed a show for a friend, Bells ofnot sure whose camera it was.... maybe Hounddog'sin any caseI was in charge of filmingit was darkI did not know how to use that cameraI did not know how to use any camera so I did not know how to ZOOM IN or ZOOM OUTbut I did find a button that inverted the imagetried with one song to invert things to the beatof course the beat was offpartially due to the response lagand partially due to my lack of rhythm

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